Data · collection · 2025
A new species of Androctonus from the Najd Plateau of Saudi Arabia (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Yağmur, Ersen Aydın, Alqahtani, Abdulaziz R., Badry, Ahmed (2025): A new species of Androctonus from the Najd Plateau of Saudi Arabia (Scorpiones, Buthidae).
Description
ZooKeys 1262: 33-59, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.163047
Abstract
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A new scorpion species, Androctonus najdensis sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Saudi Arabia. It is compared with existing species from the Middle East and Iran, notably A. crassicauda (Olivier, 1807) and the recently described A. tihamicus Alqahtani, Yağmur & Badry, 2023. Molecular analysis using the COI mitochondrial gene revealed a genetic divergence of 7.0 to 11 % between A. najdensis sp. nov. and A. crassicauda sensu lato samples from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran.
The combination of molecular and morphological data supports the recognition of the Najd populations as a distinct species. Additionally, an identification key for Androctonus species in Iran and the Middle East is provided.
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- GBIF dataset page gbif.org/dataset/af296b80-3b5e-4d8f-87ae-16b2401ec230 ↗
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- DOI doi.org/10.15468/y6bd5m ↗
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- Publisher page tb.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/C7890B0EC00554BEAF834AB96A4A5AD1 ↗
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- GBIF API api.gbif.org/v1/dataset/af296b80-3b5e-4d8f-87ae-16b2401ec230 ↗
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Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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| GBIF | af296b80-3b5e-4d8f-87ae-16b2401ec230 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| access_level | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | /description |
| license | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 |